This month we invite all of you to take advantage of a new feature we've
developed to let users quickly scan series of coins, comics, or magazines
for issues that stand out as a result of one or more of these three
factors:

Above average demand

Recent sales activity

Recent sharp increase in pricing

We are categorizing three levels, Warm (Yellow Flame), Hot (Orange Flame), and
Red Hot (Red Flame, of course!). As you sift through the data, you'll find the
yellow and orange flames turn up fairly often. For example, look at the start
of the Amazing Spider-Man run below. Of course nearly every issue is either
in demand or has recent sales. Price increases, however, are generally positive
but moderate and steady. Except for that book-and-record reprint that is still
intact as a set today! If you mouse-over the flame you'll see the drivers
(this can also be seen in the example image below).

What's hot for early ASM

Similarly on the coins side, we can bring up a series like Buffalo
Nickels, and see a fair number of items that people are looking
for and/or have recent sales. Below is a little snippet from that
U.S. coin series.

Sampling of early Buffalo Nickels

The piece of this that's going to give you a leg up in the hobby though is
finding those elusive red-flame items. These are not only active, they are spiking
unusually in price. The beauty is our code systematically finds them, and
you detectives can figure out what the drivers are, and maybe even spot
the next trends. Things are changing fast, and our service is adapting
to get you more data, in more ways, faster. Below is a snippet from a
title that really caught us by surprise and I'm not going to give away -
let's see if any of you can figure it out. PS, I checked another popular online
price guide for this red-hot comic and they have it at $95.00, with flat pricing over the
last few years.

Mystery Title

Behind the scenes we just finished testing another round of pricing
algorithm improvements and can't wait to show them to you
next month. So make sure and check our collection values
after the December update, and check some of the pricing trend-lines
that you have been keeping an eye on.